3 March 2004 The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev. Rowan Williams, warmly greeted the leadership of the Anglican Mission in America (AMiA), welcoming them to Lambeth Palace, the Archbishop’s official residence and office in London. Following informal conversation over coffee, Archbishop Williams invited the two AMiA bishops, the Rt. Rev. Chuck Murphy and the Rt. Rev. TJ Johnston, to share the work and ministry of the Anglican Mission with an advisory council that he has

BBC News The Right Reverend Gene Robinson, bishop of New Hampshire, was to argue a gay lifestyle should not stop clergy becoming bishops. But he said taking part would not help the church at this time. An Anglican commission is examining the implications of the election of Bishop Robinson, a practising homosexual. The openly-gay divorced father-of-two was consecrated in 2003 amid protests from traditionalists. Prayed long and hard He was due to speak on 11 March, proposing th

Anglican Communion News Service — ACNS 3792 2 March 2004 The Most Revd Frank Griswold, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the USA, celebrated the Eucharist at Canterbury Cathedral this morning on this his 19th anniversary as a bishop. The normal daily mass, in the Chapel of Modern Day Saints and Martyrs, was attended by the members of the Joint Standing Committee, a conference of Church of England Diocesan Secretaries and regular worshippers. He was assisted at the a

2 March 2004 The Most Revd Frank Griswold, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the USA, celebrated the Eucharist at Canterbury Cathedral on his 19th anniversary as bishop. The service, held in the Chapel of Modern Day Saints and Martyrs, was attended by members of the Joint Standing Committee, Church of England Diocesan Secretaries, and regular worshippers. He was assisted by the Cathedral’s Precentor. Today’s agenda included a budget report from Archbishop Robin Eame

Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old, he will not depart from it.—Prov. XXII. 6. I suppose that most professing Christians are acquainted with the text at the head of this page. The sound of it is probably familiar to your ears, like an old tune. It is likely you have heard it, or read it, talked of it, or quoted it, many a time. Is it not so? But, after all, how little is the substance of this text regarded! The doctrine it contains appears scarcely k

The odd thing about Mel Gibson's movie, "The Passion of the Christ," is this: It is successful even though it flies in the face of two distinct American theologies: iconoclastic evangelicalism and Protestant liberalism, both marked by the image of the empty cross, though for different reasons. You can't in fairness accuse the former of promoting "Christianity light," as do liberals, whose creed H. Reinhold Niebuhr described sarcastically thus: "A God without wrath brought man

"THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST" – BY MICHAEL J. MCMANUS On Ash Wednesday Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" opened on an unprecedented 4,643 screens in America to packed crowds. If 300 people were in each one, 1.4 million people witnessed this epic film on its first day. In Dallas, despite a cold rainy day, 6,000 people attended 21 screenings in one theater complex at 6:30 AM, 7:30 and 8:30 thanks to a $42,000 gift by Arch Bonemma. He donated 3,000 tickets to his megachurch

TV Program Transcript — Australian Broadcasting Corporation Reporter: Tony Jones President Bush’s statements have naturally echoed here in Australia, where, late last year, the Prime Minister argued passionately against legalising gay marriage. “You’re talking here about the survival of the species,” Mr. Howard told an interviewer in Darwin. But at least one very senior churchman is offering up a third way—not gay marriage as such, but recognition of lifelong friendships betw

The Primate of Australia, the Most Rev. Peter Carnley of Perth, has issued a stinging attack on the evangelical Diocese of Sydney and its leader, Archbishop Peter Jensen. “Sydney Anglicanism,” Dr. Carnley argues in his book Reflections in Glass, is out of synch with “mainstream Anglicanism” and holds fundamentalist or erroneous views on Scripture, women clergy, lay presidency at the Eucharist, bioethics, fetal embryo research, ecumenism, and interfaith dialogue. In his new bo

The Rt. Rev. George Wayne Smith Bishop of Missouri 28 February 2004 Bishop Smith, As with your letter of 26 February, I write to you with deep sadness in the aftermath of recent events. With the receipt of your letter, however, I feel that I must now make my voice heard and respond to the issues you have raised. As you have chosen to address only the symptoms of the sickness which has invaded the Body of Christ, I must prayerfully remind you of their cause. I would bring to

News Analysis — By David W. Virtue Pennsylvania Bishop Charles E. Bennison, in his monthly diocesan message “The Power of Time,” says that Anglican understanding of core doctrine is the ‘power of time’ and not the substance of the ‘faith once delivered.’ He cited Michael Peers, Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, a revisionist bishop like himself, whose tenure saw a massive departure from the church and the closing of hundreds of parishes. But ‘time’ of its very essenc

By Julia Duin — The Washington Times, 3/1/2004 The pastor of a Capitol Hill Episcopal parish has challenged the Diocese of Washington with a resolution rebuking same-sex “marriage,” and a debate scheduled in his church was canceled yesterday after documents were stolen and trashed. A draft of the one-page statement, which was presented Saturday to members at Calvary Episcopal Church on Capitol Hill, declares that “Holy Scripture does not support giving God's blessing to a sex

STATEMENT FROM THE EPISCOPAL SYNOD OF CENTRAL AFRICA The Episcopal Synod Standing Committee of the Church of the Province of Central Africa, which met in Botswana from 17th to 18th February 2004, made the following Statement: In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. With profound sadness the Church of the Province of Central Africa declares that the Episcopal Church in the United States of America (ECUSA) has inflicted a desperately grave wound

By Greg Garrison News staff writer Birmingham News 2/29/2004 Alabama Episcopalians voted Saturday to reject the denomination's approval of its first openly gay bishop and adopted a restricted budget that reduces funding sent to the New York headquarters. "It expresses disagreement, but not division," said Bishop Henry N. Parsley, head of the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama, who presided over the meeting. "We're not going anywhere." By passing a resolution "affirming our Anglican

By The Rev. Benjamin Bernier This generation owes a debt of gratitude to Mel Gibson for having dared use the power of modern media to bring before the eyes of millions the fruit of, what unfortunately has become a lost or rare art, the art of Christian meditation. The movie begins with an ancient quotation (700 BC) from Isaiah 53:5, "But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes w

"We have a war chest and we'll go to the mat for our property," says rector By David W. Virtue 3/1/2004 ST. LOUIS, MO — The Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd voted overwhelmingly on Sunday to leave the Diocese of Missouri and the Episcopal Church and to affiliate with the Anglican Mission in America. The vote to leave was significant, said the Rev. Paul R. Walter, 66, who has been rector there for nearly 8 years. "Of the 148 who could vote, 98 were present, 84 voted for a

By Paul Carter A fifth Anglican Primate has joined an alliance of International Archbishops that has extended an offer of "temporary adequate Episcopal oversight"* to churches in Canada. The Most Rev. Benjamin Nzimbi, Archbishop of Kenya, indicated his desire to assist the alliance that already includes the Primates of Central Africa, Congo, Rwanda and South East Asia. The offer of "temporary adequate Episcopal oversight" was recently made to congregations and clergy that cou

February 25, 2004 Ash Wednesday Memorandum to: the Clergy of the Diocese of Central Florida From: Bishop John W. Howe Dear Brothers and Sisters, I am now able to report to you regarding recent developments relating to The Church of the New Covenant and the Diocese of Central Florida. On January 18, 2004, the Rector and Vestry of New Covenant unanimously passed two resolutions, which the Rector and some of the Vestry's representatives discussed with our Chancellor and me on Fe

By Jonathan Petre, Religion Correspondent (Filed: 01/03/2004) Anglicanism's most senior critic of homosexuality is to embarrass the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, by boycotting a top-level meeting in Canterbury today in protest over its first openly gay bishop. The Primate of Nigeria, Archbishop Peter Akinola, is refusing to attend the meeting of Church leaders, hosted by Dr Williams, because he objects to the presence of the leader of the liberal American Churc

Church of Apostles no longer funds diocese, national church By Frank E. Lockwood HERALD-LEADER STAFF WRITER PRESTONSBURG — Leaders of a Lexington Episcopal congregation, objecting to the consecration of openly gay bishop Gene Robinson, are no longer sharing communion with Lexington Bishop Stacy Sauls. Church of the Apostles, a 7-year-old evangelical parish, has stopped giving money to the Lexington diocese and the Episcopal Church USA. The congregation, with an average attend